Security Scan Report: books.mingpao.com

Bot Protection Detected

This website is protected by Cloudflare bot protection. The page may show differently for regular users.

Submitted: Completed: publiccompleted
This website contacted 4 IPs in 1 country across 2 domains to perform 11 HTTP transactions. The main domain is mingpao.com and was registered 31 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://books.mingpao.com

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #128,330 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 62%

2
Risk Score

Content was gated behind a Cloudflare bot challenge, so page evidence is unavailable; however content-independent signals — a 31-year-old Ming Pao publishing domain, no Indicators of Compromise, no YARA/IDS hits — are clean. Low risk.

Risk Factors (1)
Circular redirect flagged (final URL appears earlier in the chain) — consistent with a bot-challenge/SSO loop, weighted as a minor signal
Safety Factors (6)
Domain registered 1995-04-25 (well-established, 31 years old)
No Indicators of Compromise matches against the page or its resources
No JavaScript malware (YARA), no high-precision native-YARA hits, no kit-roster match
No network-level IDS alerts
No brand impersonation — hostname and displayed text match the site's own domain
ML classifier: technology software (78%), neutral/low-signal
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Just a moment...other network

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

The domain 'books.mingpao.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) and includes subdomain 'books'. Its registrable label 'mingpao' stretches across 7 characters holding 3 vowels versus four consonants. It segments into two words: ming, pao. Median word length is 3.5 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://books.mingpao.com

Page Load Overview

0.67s
Total Load Time
928 KB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English
Code: en
Confidence:80%
Script:Latin
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en-US
Text Length:388 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software78% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
78%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
5172.66.150.19Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2104.18.95.41Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2104.20.45.117Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2104.18.94.41Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
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Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T189D2EA73EB14221B25238E9F7AD0FA843135D2C1AE15A3B6F57275B48BC959127B33C2

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

768:fmYTSWdSZBTx3T/VcxkO2IknB7xIEklIMAyIpu:ohc4xIdlIMTqu

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:28569:Ha5EEJAeKxMCcjk+BBUmiHTJqCGMgsWQIDAACIGqAJ8xQgVFPdKoILxVwwsUJkgjQwgLAgoKCqrciSFiPUQGJKByfAgKTBDo

These hashes enable detection of similar websites and malware variants by comparing content similarity even when exact matches aren't found.

Image Hashes

Perceptual Hashes

Average Hash:cfc3c3ffffffffe7
Perceptual Hash:b13930cec6cec6cc
Difference Hash:189e16100000000c
Wavelet Hash:3c000c3c0f0f3f03
Color Hash:#2dd29e

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:189e16100000000c

Scan History

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